When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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